Show fa ARM m LABOR SHORTAGE araos I 1 0 s lis aasi a t 7 ay 5 ry ayr ow woj c I 1 yala w 0 wr calls 0 O fp babo by ROBERT G in the new york sun san rth alre r depending upon the united states in n I 1 these ese b tb words moral dald L lubin 11 the A amer er I 1 I 1 fee lean representative I 1 in the in U institute 0 1 agri culture it at rome r recently t ly summed sit A up the burden ot 1 lead food cn production which chic a of war or he has placed upon the h a ait sla shoulders udde al 0 the far carmera liters or of th the a united ed star states heaby H a v as this obligation would be ID 1 normal chwat tile the task has hag become much more difficult by reason rea of our safe entry v into i ante a the t he conflict it will not suf of flee fire that we no merely beef Y restrain appetites ap petate that have developed doald pea during long periods led of plenty and prosperity P self belt denial will undoubtedly contribute lito to an portable exportable surplus b but of not notable 1 hardships may be imposed up upon us as in order that we me may mav contribute vital foodstuffs to our one allies life in tile the course of ties alie current year the erling crying need if we are to have sufficient food for ourselves and a liberal laws to rend led abroad la IS ft a proper supply auppl of capable crabl farm labor lie many things hae bae been pra promised miNed by the constituted authorities but r rela cl a ethely little has been bee achieved in meet ing the situation squarely and fur furnish nill ing a practical solution of if this oils ingae fun fall da men tit problem the up to date tiller filter of the sell eoll Is no an doubt patriotic but he has suffered through the reaction refie twit of hla his prompt response to the appeal made mad to him mr ear ij 1 lust last vear car to joao a his it tt acres 0 o he Is if i a business man and ad his it readiness randi neo to help he has hurt him as 1 his hi annual coal balance ehms he has he been be crowded by many howe circumstances and ad lit his books booko bear indisputable ellace of losses where he counted upon reason able gains the prices tor for fertilizers seeds I 1 farm 0 tools anil feeds ha bae e tal amna ll 11 mounted to d to more or less me prohibitive heights height and ad then by wa of ell climax ea he be be has budal suddenly bud denly V real realized it that even higher wages could not act recruit for him the necessary qualified labor T there I 1 Is a I 1 1 I 71 cad dip disposition ol 01 it to boost boast of anderl american inger ingenuity hit Y 1 in eyolf iv ing fog laboi label saving ig far farm rah ra h nry it Is true t that but from 1855 to the bar human effort re milled to inclines one ol 01 of if car corn declined on an an average a fro from f four hours bar and a hilt half to a of b but u 41 fi and in the mitter matter of pro ducong n 9 stuat own to 1804 4 the manual 11 al labor diminished flow three theve hours been and three minutes to ten ra balto a bushel ot of marketable grain lint but abil cleverly did devised di d appala lua us line has made ads till this time baying sag possible 1 ad 1111 and has enabled on one an man to do in a day what hot formerly many men could not accomplish between It heIlle and be sun set all still these bechn tell aids aide have emphasis ed the need of if greater skill on the its pirt part of if tile hie agricultural army b bivs women and child childen unused to farm or an elk old tile abc it dwellers ere at me not of so an ang to meet the difficulty difficult tile the trained tze farmland farmhand far fac Is the man an that 1 la now am need oil cd more lure than flen ever or CAP opinions it 11 1 adf of paul T erady brady up upon ag A cl rl cultural 1 pta topics have 11 been bee printed I 1 his fi pol llon li uncommon and aim adds espe 01 for force to what ho he has to say any A As a conspicuous c u fi figure goes in one of it amerl A set sot acl caa 11 largest e electrical cut 1 1 manufacturing C fian thriving ing companies a captain of I 1 f industry 1 he bai be gone go in 1 for fog fim f im na a side aide ts 1 sue us beat upon co showing ing that business be Is methods applied to the t le land will compensating returns and a ad was make a of ng g ri culture a balanced de dependable industry lie he has applied to his hundreds of acres in delchesa county the same me administrate e comen acumen which has haq P placed need him allm win lie he 1 1 in commercial ft life a in a answer b to a an inquiry tip As to his firlo gr opinion pie 1 a regarding r ding the prospect for nn an pie P supply of it labor bar on an the forms and the probable production of food stuffs staffs during 1918 mr life brady said when president wit allson made ad his appeal in t the h a spring ot of 1917 for far the P linth it of if e susceptible of producing foodstuffs for far the united att and for fit world at large it if necessary cessel ces s an none were ere more loval none made led exciter aello efforts effort than the owners of farma throughout b out the united states A many 1 Y re men A who had previously planted VI led b but t a small 1 I acreage did their flat utmost almost to filor increase the their fields 1 1 it and as a result our on potato inual crop 1 or 1917 exceeded erces ded by more than bushels that of a any other year then labor on the faring ie was waa sub all infinite undisturbed but later came C the ili call for volunteers for far the army arm and tile the navy and finally the military draft agricultural workers worker began been to in leave have I 1 the he farms by reason of the lure of the higher higbe wages of the monition facto factories lea i and the patriotic bids of the fighting g services the consequence of this tide of trained men moving anav from t the lie firms told hurtfully before tile the close of agil cultural activity al many farmers oh who had planted crops with the expectation hm peet pec tation a if A of thoroughly balti cultivating ting them harvesting old and storing what w hat might be necessary rv and selling the sur she plus found themselves thom towards the it a let lat ter part of the deaso season without militant the needful help to finish the cultivation or if this were uses done they were after word ward without aid at tile the time of hit hir vest eat tt it was as only logical that large quantities of foodstuffs me were left A un gathered and spoiled where v here they stood olle mv own experience liaa been much Imar beel thill like that of maev wb others in tia trying g to respond to the presidential appeal last spring I 1 decided to use mory every resource to produce as large a crop as possible A of f foodstuffs IN be bogli to feed a big herd held of milk producing cattle and to raise miss young stock to sell 1 in the mar lines of it the world 1 I need from fr 30 to 40 men 1 all the tiro time aa a I 1 hive have nearly early head of hillh cows young stock etc and the growing grow ing of teed feed for these th me cattle as aa well aa athe the carp are of them demands a good force to e CA of farm laborers laborer it fr was plain p into to th me last spring that I 1 was likely to run short of workers arker and ad accordingly reno sl ow I 1 I 1 secured evil a number of brown indor sity ity students and ad some Ts high school boys boy 1 in all beat about twelve most of these men were with out an adv knowl kelc eilie lle of faim facto operations donations some scam of the high bil school 1 bivs were or worse more than useless 1184 thee were a nuis ance and had to be got get rid of f the raj W fizits verity men bet being a man to with h a one another worked together and did very cry 0 well ill but eien Cs so the they he had d to be and under the cire care and direction of A f nen men nearly till all the time A shot while ahi A win ago I 1 as cloird I 1 con selling every else head of cattle that I 1 owned nored bell and letting ties the land lie idle until more help could be seemed secured upon up second thought I 1 decided not at to do this for economic 1 I reasons to in mv I 1 expect to produce ehli year vear 2 WO pounds of from my d dalry dry herd berd a large num nuat her of soung lemig stock fork approximately t B 1 and other products it non would j be smas thin thang of 1 a public calamity to dissipate these resources let me make it this plains plainer the pounds of milk I 1 count A upon POR glating N f the equi equivalent alent in food vidue value of 1000 1 pounds of beef to obtain brute 1 1000 pounds of if toof would won lit take 2 00 head of cattle dress dr ing pounds apiece after a consider coast lie feDi able period of fing and fattening but who when 2000 2 ill head he it of if cattle I 1 tile line have beef been killed kill and 0 tumid ter d into beef their vital course comor a cornea 1 hom to an end llie I 1 he dairy hoed on an the other hand band even while g pound of milk ilk and giving ching birth to fr from jusa to cah calvet still remains intact and capable of further furl lier production and reproduction bearing these facts fact 1 in mind led I 1 am going to try to keep things running but fit the outlook attack Is not at encouraging many uninformed writers matter tell 11 us s to uti utilize fize the have bova utilize the men be from the oan offices and the cities put the th W wornon am to work 1 in the fields field let me say that few of 0 thew these bcd bois or are lit fit to be a on a 0 farm find and given their board based an inexperienced r laced man from office life me can learn 1 in the time set but little ot or the waya of working a farm farm A era are grown not hot made 1 lu a few weeks elk A an A fi untrained farmhand farmland far with a pair of horses hones and a riding didds tor for g going ing into a field of it earn corn potatoes etc bee can do more damage in III a day than hla his berst se services areu are worth orth I 1 in an so en afir season As tor for main women the native born bare are am not educated tor for farm work they might be forced to learn in the courne of a number her of years but they are not at na as constitutionally rugged as their tor 1 eign I g A sister tile alicy were not brought up faydo to 0 labor in ID the fields if a supply of if I 1 libor Is not lot furnished to 0 the farm fanni the awa a condition cendt hin for far the year flem lp one more awre serious than mv me words on convey where then Is this farm labor to come from mary people bee have A advocated the in trod net ion of chinese if the war la IS to contin continue bud and a shortage A of workers 11 ll going to last why it 11 be a good plan to import 1 or chirca chinese after the manner set by france and let them stay stav in this country for three or five years the ch chinaman n as aa tell us as 1 Is a r reliable industrious tid arime and very capable farmhand farmland far probably becan becane e hla his country has be been bee A preeminently I 1 fly an A agricultural nation for centuries if we wa do not want the them A adv long r than the time set then they can he be shipped back bacal to china chin under ends to terms that or are nt at and genc such inch as the french have promised kroml bcd this really seems at first blush to be the 11 likeliest hotl I 1 S t A solution butlo of our pressing preening need of tillers filters of the soil 11 we must not hot forget that it w hilll in be a long CAR long time before wo we will R A etite labor 0 torah abdo lag ing on our railroads working g tn A our u r construction gangs at various ander tal III ingi ing the th thousands ads of italians indiana A up r on tthum lean we me rolled relied dow donn to 1914 antic if f the introduction of th the oriental la Is objected to then efi why not act enlist list our trained farm labor in the national guard gould retain the them in this country for far home boom defense defence and ad hold the thema f where ta they 1 y can be ahw on promptly f for ag afia tig a ad purposes AID and set 30 be within 1 l 1 ey easy reach if they are required to for r domestic di military service 1 in this we way the killed cited Is a finished workman an led and I 1 ft economic coni side idera if blont or are to tl bl be I 1 heeded dl he 1 in should no lit Is be used where miter he con contribute in most at to tile the national welfare |